Political Quotes - Page 40

• Politicians generally do the right thing only when all other options are exhausted.

  Daniel J. Mitchell

  Exhausted, Politician, Right Thing

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• Where do politicians come from? Why, they come from Uranus!

  Neal Boortz

  Politician

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• If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a job. Get a secure base of income. Otherwise, you're going to get corrupted and destroyed.

  Milton Friedman

  Jobs, Income, Want

  "The Best of Both Worlds". Interview with Brian Doherty, reason.com. June 1995.

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• Hillary does nothing without careful calculation. She knows that politicians - provided they have real power - who bash entire industries tend to raise huge dollars from individuals in those industries. Certain types of politicians are drawn to this marketing technique because they think the 'bashing' also can be held up as proof that they are not being corrupted. This scheme is called 'putting the squeeze on.' Does that phrase remind you of anything?

  Donald Luskin

  Real, Thinking, Marketing

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• Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, Liberty, Earth

  "All the Trouble in the World". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1994.

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• God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Play, Roles, Hell

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• The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that a pickpocket doesn't always get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.

  Joseph Sobran

  Hands, Differences, Politician

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• Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar.

  H. L. Mencken

  Honest, Politician, Ethical

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• Too many people in Washington are full of themselves, among other things that they are full of.

  Thomas Sowell

  People

  "Random Thoughts" by Thomas Sowell, www.creators.com. August 19, 2014.

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• There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.

  Thomas Sowell

  Benefits, Politician, Paid

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.217, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.

  Thomas Sowell

  Media, Truth Is, Being True

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• Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise, because of the risk of default. ... The idea that politicians can assess risks better than people who have spent their whole careers assessing risks should have been so obviously absurd that no one would take it seriously.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Should Have, Careers

  "Bailout Politics" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 30, 2008.

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• I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want.

  Charlie Peacock

  Lying, Politics, Want

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• Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute - not much to recommend them.

  Charley Reese

  Politician

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• If there were any people safe to criticize, they'd be politicians and child molesters, doncha think?

  Neal Boortz

  Children, Thinking, People

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• No one since the Garden of Eden - which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office - has imputed to politicians great purity of motive.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Running, Garden, Order

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• Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!

  Drew Carey

  Cities, House, Rats

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• A child can go only so far in life without potty training. It is not mere coincidence that six of the last seven presidents were potty trained, not to mention nearly half of the nation's state legislators.

  Dave Barry

  Children, Training, President

  Dave Barry (1984). “Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home”, p.75, Rodale

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• Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble. It is effective as a way of anticipating and resolving interpersonal problems, whether this is a marital conflict, an international conflict, a problem at work, difficulties in a friendship, political deadlocks, a family dispute, or a problem with a neighbor.

  Simon Baron-Cohen

  Empathy, Way, Problem

  Simon Baron-Cohen (2013). “The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty”, p.186, Basic Books

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• And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people do not push them to take some risks. You must create the change that you want to see.

  Barack Obama

  People, Leader, Empathy

  "Obama Asks Young Israelis To Push For Peace". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 22, 2013.

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• These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the original parable, the bland lead the bland.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Taken, Men, Discipline

  'The Affluent Society' (1958) ch. 1, sect. 3

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• The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.

  David Riesman

  Media, People, Empathy

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• Conservative Denyers and Delayers are the main reason America lacks the consensus and the political will to take up the fight against catastrophic climate change.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Fighting, Political Will, America

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution.

  William H. Calvin

  Cat, Leader, Climate

  William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.177, William H. Calvin

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• One hundred years ago, visionary political leaders from the Progressive Era established a system of national forests and parks in our country that are the envy of the world and today are the treasure of an entire nation. Why not a similar, global vision for our generation?

  Eban Goodstein

  Country, Our Generation, Years

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